Improved medical composition



My I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO THOS. W. SPEISSEGGER, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVED MEDICAL COMPOSITION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,730, dated June 19, 1866.

To all whom it may Conc the balance of the myrrh and aqua-ammonia c it kllOWll that THOMAS SPEIsSEG- is slowly added, and the mass stirred con- 0f Charles/T011, in the county of GhQ-FIBS- stantly until'all the liquid is taken up. The ton and State ofSouth Carolina, haveinvented compound should then be put in bottles bean Improved Medical Compound; and I do f li hereby declare that the following is a full, This composition is intended for the cure of clear, and exact description thereof, Which Will the itch and all cutaneous diseases, bruises, enable others skilled in the art to fully undereuts,chaps,old sores, prickly heat, taller-worm, {3 stand and make use of the same. ulcers, and all eruptions of the skin.

My invention consists in a compound com- When using the compound it should be posed of purified lard, flowers of sulphur, tincwarmed to a blood heat, and should be applied ture of myrrh, and aqua-ammonia 'to form a once or twice a day till a cure is effected. remedy or cure for almost all cutaneous dis- What I claim as new, and desire to secure eases. by Letters Patent, is-

I use the said ingredients in about the fol- A medical compound composed of the inlowing'proportions: purified lard,one and onegredients herein specified, and in about the half pound; flowers of sulphur, four ounces; proportions named. tincture of myrrh, six fluid ounces; concen- The above specification of my invention trated aqua-ammonia, olne fluid ounce. signed by me this 6th day of April, 1866.

The sulphur 1s groum in a mortar with, say, a two ounces of tincture of myrrh. The lard is THOMAS SPLISbEGGER' then added and thoroughly mixed. The mor- Witnesses:

tar is then placed over a slow fire until the H. W. SGHRODER, contents are melted. It is then removed, and O. J. PORGHER. 

